[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#721065: puppet: possible memory leak in agent

[Markus Frosch]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.7.18-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hey there,
I noticed some weird memory behavior of the Puppet agent available in
stable over the last months.

After some days the agent consums more and more memory until
I get the following logs from tagmail:

Tue Aug 27 17:16:33 +0200 2013 Puppet (err):
  Could not run command from prerun_command: Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)

ps output looks like this:
root     30776  0.6 20.5 302020 210912 ?
  Ss   Aug20  66:36 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/puppet agent

After restarting the daemon everything works fine, until after some days
again, from the output above you can see that the daemon ran for 7 days.

I'm running another node, with a smaller policy, that doesn't seem to have
such problems. (Debian squeeze with Puppet 2.7.18-3~bpo60+1)

Any help is appreciated, I can supply more data or logs if you need it.

Cheers
Markus

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  dpkg           1.16.10
ii  puppet-common  2.7.18-4
ii  ruby1.8        1.8.7.358-7

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  ruby [rdoc]  1:1.9.3

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  etckeeper   <none>
pn  puppet-el   <none>
ii  vim-puppet  2.7.18-4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/puppet changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/puppet changed [not included]

-- no debconf information